# قوشمق
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *koĺ- (“to pair, couple, joint, unite”); cognate with Azerbaijani qoşmaq and Chuvash хуш (huš).

#### Verb

قوشمق • (koşmak)
* (transitive) to connect, join, unite, attach
    Synonym: باغلامق (bağlamak)
* (transitive) to harness a beast of burden, yoke
* (transitive) to add, join or unite one thing to another
    Synonym: اكلمك (eklemek)
* (transitive) to put to work, assign a task or job

##### Derived terms

* قوشمه (koşma, “act of connecting or uniting”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: koşmak

#### References

* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Koĺ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koşmak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2757
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوشمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 375a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوشمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 984
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Addere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 19
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوشمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3796
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “koş-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوشمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1490

### Etymology 2

According to Nishanyan, possibly a semantic development from the etymology above.

#### Verb

قوشمق • (koşmak)
* (intransitive) to run, to move swiftly upon two feet
    Synonyms: سگرتمك (seğirtmek), یلمك (yelmek)
* (intransitive) to run back and forth, to run around
    Synonym: یلمك (yelmek)

##### Derived terms

* قوشمه (koşma, “act of running”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: koşmak

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koşmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2757
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوشمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 375a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوشمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 984
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Currere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 314
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوشمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3796
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “koş-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوشمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1490